What was the spread on the automation workflows? 0.2 median suggests some of them are basically instant.
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Waits for runners. Always.
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Including queue time is the right call and I would go further: it is the only number that matters to the person waiting.
We spent a quarter optimising a test suite from 14 minutes to 9 and the perceived improvement was nothing, because peak-hours queue time was 6 minutes and we had not touched it. Moving to a larger runner pool did more for the team than the optimisation did.
Measure what the developer waits for, then decide which half to attack.